President Obama will meet with a bipartisan group of senators on Nov. 19 to discuss ongoing P5+1 talks with Iran, which are set to resume Wednesday in Geneva. / Charles Dharapak, AP

by Aamer Madhani, USA TODAY

by Aamer Madhani, USA TODAY

President Obama will meet with Senate committee leaders Tuesday as the U.S. and international partners prepare to resume talks this week with Iran on its nuclear program.

Obama invited the top Democrats and Republicans from the Senate's banking, foreign relations, armed service and intelligence committees to sit down with him at the White House before the P5+1 - the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and Germany - meet for negotiations with Iran on Wednesday in Geneva, Bernadette Meehan, a spokeswoman for the White House National Security Council, said in a statement.

The meeting comes as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, as well as Israel and France, have shown increasing skepticism over the Obama administration's negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program.

Secretary of State John Kerry met last week with members of the Senate Banking Committee in an effort to dissuade them from moving forward with a new round of sanctions against Iran. Obama also said last week that levying new sanctions against Tehran would be unhelpful.

"If we're serious about pursuing diplomacy, then there's no need for us to add new sanctions on top of the sanctions that are already very effective and that brought them to the table in the first place," Obama said.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said last week that he expects the Senate will soon debate stepping up sanctions against Iran and noted that Arab nations -- such as Saudi Arabia -- are also suspicious of the talks.

"It's pretty obvious that what the administration was promoting is something the Israelis think is a bad deal for them," McConnell told reporters. "It's pretty clear the Sunni Arab allies of ours also think it's a bad deal. Looking at it strictly from an American point of view, I think it's a bad deal as well."